Package: libfreetype6 Version: 2.6-2 Severity: normal File: libfreetype Hi Steve,
as the discussion in #799345 and upstream in [1] has shown, some fonts -- especially CFF fonts like e.g. fonts-cantarell -- look odd with the new CFF rendering engine enabled in FreeType, having their vertical stems smeared independently of the selected hinting method. As it turned out, the main culprit for this is that the stem darkening feature is enabled by default in FreeType. Proper support for this feature, however, requires the actual rendering libraries (e.g. cairo) to have gamma correction implemented, which they currently do not. Thus, disabling this feature in FreeType until the rendering stack is fixed to properly support it appears as the correct way to move forward. I have prepared a private freetype package with a simple patch applied to disable this feature. Reportedly, rendering of the affected fonts is vastly improved with this package installed. Please find it here: https://people.debian.org/~fabian/unstable/freetype_2.6-2.1.dsc Thank you! Cheers, Fabian [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724190 -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'experimental'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages libfreetype6:amd64 depends on: ii libc6 2.19-22 ii libpng12-0 1.2.50-2+b2 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 libfreetype6:amd64 recommends no packages. libfreetype6:amd64 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
